Even if you feel that the white house should stop being used as an active part of the USA government, it doesn’t make sense to tear it down.
Take Auschwitz for example - a horrible place, but worth preserving so that future generations can see history in person and learn from the past. At the very least, the whitehouse is worth preserving for its historical value, if nothing else.
Take Auschwitz for example - a horrible place, but worth preserving so that future generations can see history in person and learn from the past.
I understand your argument, and I see the merit in it, but I deeply disagree. Some history doesn’t deserve to be preserved. We can learn from the worst of our past - we can celebrate the lives of the Nazis’ victims, mourn their deaths, and learn about the evil that killed them and the apathy and bigotry that enabled it - without turning genocide into a tourist attraction.
They paved over Hitler’s bunker and put a parking lot on top of it. A much more fitting end.
Auschwitz became a museum because Auschwitz survivors made sure it was. Survivors fought to preserve it and created what we see today. Otherwise it would long have been paved. It’s a place to remember the victims but also the atrocities commited there.
It’s not so much a tourist attraction, rather a monument to warn about fascism. It’s very different to visit than to just read about it in a book. Also, it’s not for-profit. It’s publicly funded.
Even if you feel that the white house should stop being used as an active part of the USA government, it doesn’t make sense to tear it down.
Take Auschwitz for example - a horrible place, but worth preserving so that future generations can see history in person and learn from the past. At the very least, the whitehouse is worth preserving for its historical value, if nothing else.
I understand your argument, and I see the merit in it, but I deeply disagree. Some history doesn’t deserve to be preserved. We can learn from the worst of our past - we can celebrate the lives of the Nazis’ victims, mourn their deaths, and learn about the evil that killed them and the apathy and bigotry that enabled it - without turning genocide into a tourist attraction.
They paved over Hitler’s bunker and put a parking lot on top of it. A much more fitting end.
Auschwitz became a museum because Auschwitz survivors made sure it was. Survivors fought to preserve it and created what we see today. Otherwise it would long have been paved. It’s a place to remember the victims but also the atrocities commited there.
It’s not so much a tourist attraction, rather a monument to warn about fascism. It’s very different to visit than to just read about it in a book. Also, it’s not for-profit. It’s publicly funded.
The parking lot was built specifically to keep Nazis from having a place of worship